Originally Posted by
taxexile
1. tyres are not the soft bouncy kiddie play rubber that in your ignorance you fondly imagine them to be, they consist of a combination of synthetic rubbers and a steel carcass all of which can detach with great force when flung off a rotating wheel when the tyre is damaged and slice through any pipework in the near vicinity. e.g. brake pipes or fuel lines.
2. though not a volatile liquid, brake fluid is inflammable. modern brake fluids are based on polyalkylene glycols. thus, if during a collision, brake fluid should splash on an exhaust system at 400 deg C or over, it will ignite spontaneously.
3.diesel liquid is stable, but in vapour form, it is highly inflammable. and the vapourization rate increases with temperature and can easily explode when mixed with air.
4. the engine may have been fuelled with highly inflammable natural gas.